Mideast Quotes

#1. Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

Bobby Ray Inman

#2. Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

Karl Rove

#3. We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the matter is we do rely on imported oil to fuel our economy and to fuel our nation.

Colin Powell

#4. Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#5. The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Jay Inslee

#6. We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Rosie O'Donnell

#7. It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

Caspar Weinberger

#8. The present oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of government mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

Milton Friedman

#9. When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

Greta Van Susteren

#10. I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.

Phil McGraw

#11. The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

Michael Hudson

#12. Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.

Yaron Brook

#13. What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

#14. Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

Elliott Abrams

#15. None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.

John Conyers

#16. Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

Michael D. Eisner

#17. I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

Richelle Mead

#18. We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Al Gore

#19. There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

Jason Ritter

#20. Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing Love. When we learn not to judge others - and totally accept them, and not want to change them - we can simultaneously learn to accept ourselves.

Gerald Jampolsky

#21. I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Hanif Kureishi

#22. I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

Kumail Nanjiani

#23. I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Sean Hannity

#24. I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

Princess Diana

#25. This world is not the only home. This world is for practice to get things right.

Kathleen Grissom

#26. An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.

Andi James Chamberlain

#27. Imagine that this communication sometimes lends a sense of the uncanny to the landscape because of the narcissism of our human gaze, but that it is just part of the natural world here.

Jeff VanderMeer

#28. The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Oswald Chambers